In another attempt to suppress our civil liberties, the FBI subpoenaed the Internet Archive to release private information about one of its users. They fought back. They won.
[ Read the Wired.com Article ]
Interesting point of discussion about the issue. The FBI itself warned that the NSLs (National Security Letters) were to be used sparingly. Meanwhile, they cite that they can only estimate the number of times they have been used since 2001, but that they had “issued tens of thousands of NSLs since 2001.”
Why aren’t they limited by law? Why are our liberties at their discretion? Isn’t this supposed to be the land of the free?
